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Book Synopsis Russia's Transition to a New Federalism by : Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Download or read book Russia's Transition to a New Federalism written by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WBI Learning Resources discuss issues in economic development policy and lessons from experience in a way that can be understood by non-specialists. This is the first in a series that will look at governance and decentralisation and looks at the implications of federalism on the growth of Russia's economy. In particular it looks at the impact of fiscal decentralisation as the way intergovernmental finances are resolved influences the transition and macroeconomic stability.
Book Synopsis Russia's Transition to a New Federalism by : Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Download or read book Russia's Transition to a New Federalism written by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and published by World Bank Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WBI Learning Resources discuss issues in economic development policy and lessons from experience in a way that can be understood by non-specialists.; This is the first in a series that will look at governance and decentralization and looks at the implications of federalism on the growth of Russia's economy. In particular it looks at the impact of fiscal decentralization, as the way inter-governmental finances are resolved influences the transition and macroeconomic stability. It sets out the political history leading up to the Putin-led government, and it links Russia's choices with the broader issues facing any country undergoing inter-governmental reform.
Book Synopsis Federalism and Local Politics in Russia by : Cameron Ross
Download or read book Federalism and Local Politics in Russia written by Cameron Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines federalism and regional and local politics in Russia. Many commentators have alluded to the unique nature of Russia's dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity. But there is in fact a third transition under way in Russia that is of no less importance, the need to reconfigure central-local relations and to create a stable and viable form of federalism. Federal states are much more difficult to set up than unitary ones, and forging a new federal system at the same time as privatising the economy and trying to radically overhaul the political system has clearly made Russia's transition triply difficult. The book discusses how Vladimir Putin has re-asserted the power of the centre in Russia, and tightened the federal government's control of the regions. It shows how, contrary to his rhetoric about developing Russia as a free and democratic state, authoritarianism has been extended - through his reorganisation of the Federation Council, his usurpation of powers to dismiss regional assemblies and chief executives, and his creation of seven unelected super-governors. The book explores a wide range of issues related to these developments, including a comparative study of Russian federalism and local politics, ethnic federalism, the merging of federal units, regional governors, electoral and party reforms, and regional and local politics. It also includes case studies of local and regional politics in specific regions.
Book Synopsis Reforming Regional-local Finance in Russia by : Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Download or read book Reforming Regional-local Finance in Russia written by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exposition is based on an analytical framework covering all ?building blocks? of fiscal federalism: size and structure of jurisdictions, expenditures, revenues, transfers, and borrowing. The application of this framework to Russian settings results in a comprehensive assessment of the state of intergovernmental fiscal relations in Russia.
Book Synopsis Federalism with and Without Political Centralization by : Olivier J. Blanchard
Download or read book Federalism with and Without Political Centralization written by Olivier J. Blanchard and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China, local governments have actively contributed to the growth of new firms. In Russia, local governments have typically stood in the way, be it through taxation, regulation, or corruption. There appears to be two main reasons behind the behavior of local governments in Russia. First, capture by old firms, leading local governments to protect them from competition by new entrants. Second, competition for rents by local officials, eliminating incentives for new firms to enter. The question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization present in China, but not in Russia. Transition in China has taken place under the tight control of the communist party. As a result, the central government has been in a strong position both to reward and to punish local administrations, reducing both the risk of local capture and the scope of competition for rents. By contrast, transition in Russia has come with the emergence of a partly dysfunctional democracy. The central government has been neither strong enough to impose its views, nor strong enough to set clear rules about the sharing of the proceeds of growth. As a result, local governments have had few incentives either to resist capture or to rein in competition for rents. Based on the experience of China, a number of researchers have argued that federalism could play a central role in development. We agree, but with an important caveat. We believe the experience of Russia indicates that another ingredient is crucial, namely political centralization
Book Synopsis Reforming Regional-local Finance in Russia by : Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Download or read book Reforming Regional-local Finance in Russia written by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines the current state of Russia's system of government at regional and local level in relation to tax policy and the related reforms implemented over the past decade. It looks at the size and structure of jurisdictions, expenditure and revenue, transfers and borrowing; considers reform options based on international practices; and discusses likely challenges arising from the implementation of proposed intergovernmental reforms. This publication complements another World Bank Institute publication ('Russia's transition to a new federalism' (2001, ISBN 082134840X) which focuses on federal-regional relations and the impact of fiscal decentralisation.
Book Synopsis Federalism and democratisation in Russia by : Cameron Ross
Download or read book Federalism and democratisation in Russia written by Cameron Ross and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Building on earlier work, this text combines theoretical perspectives with empirical work, to provide a comparative analysis of the electoral systems, party systems and governmental systems in the ethnic republics and regions of Russia. It also assesses the impact of these different institutional arrangements on democratization and federalism, moving the focus of research from the national level to the vitally important processes of institution building and democratization at the local level and to the study of federalism in Russia.
Book Synopsis The State After Communism by : Timothy J. Colton
Download or read book The State After Communism written by Timothy J. Colton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the fall of communism in Russia, most observers took for granted that the structures of the new democratic state would be effective agents of the popular will. This assumption was overly optimistic. Eleven respected contributors examine governance in post-Soviet Russia in comparative context, investigating the roots, characteristics, and consequences of the crisis as a whole and its manifestations in the specific realms of tax collection, statistics, federalism, social policy, regulation of the banks, currency exchange, energy policy, and parliamentary oversight of the bureaucracy.
Book Synopsis Federalism and the Dictatorship of Power in Russia by : Mikhail Stoliarov
Download or read book Federalism and the Dictatorship of Power in Russia written by Mikhail Stoliarov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoliarov presents an analysis of the historical traditions and distinctive features of modern Russian federalism. He reviews the state of affairs in today's Russia as it strives to become a federal democracy securing the rights and liberties of its citizens. By tracing two contrasting ideas - federalism and derzhavnost (dictatorship of power) - in the legacy of the Russian state, and in relations between the modern federal government and the regions, he demonstrates the need for balance in the delimitation of power. The election in 2000 if Vladimir Putin as President raised doubts about the future of federalism among politicians and citizens, but Stoliarov believes that the development of federalism is the only way forward for this multi-ethnic and multi-religious society. He shows that the strengthening of 'vertical power' and 'dictatorship of the law', despite their patriotic appeal, are likely to have a negative effect on the building of democracy and federalism in Russia.
Book Synopsis Federalism and the Dictatorship of Power in Russia by : Mikhail Venediktovich Stoli͡arov
Download or read book Federalism and the Dictatorship of Power in Russia written by Mikhail Venediktovich Stoli͡arov and published by Routledge/Curzon. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an analysis of the historical traditions and distinctive features of modern Russian federalism. It reviews the state of affairs in today's Russia as it strives to become a federal democracy securing the rights and liberties of its citizens. By tracing two contrasting ideas -- federalism and derzhavnost (dictatorship of power) -- in the legacy of the Russian state, and in relations between the modern federal government and the regions, it demonstrates the need for balance in the delimitation of power.
Book Synopsis Economic Transition in Russia and the New States of Eurasia by : Bartłomiej Kamiński
Download or read book Economic Transition in Russia and the New States of Eurasia written by Bartłomiej Kamiński and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the economic progress made by the new states of the former Soviet Union in the transition from command to market economies. Topics discussed include: political and economic adjustments; the domestic dimension; macropolicies; restructuring; and regional and world integration.
Book Synopsis Federalism and the Dictatorship of Power in Russia by :
Download or read book Federalism and the Dictatorship of Power in Russia written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia by : Jeffrey Kahn
Download or read book Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia written by Jeffrey Kahn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-06-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the approaches of three fields of scholarship - political science, law and Russian area- tudies - the author explores the foundations and future of the Russian Federation. Russia's political elite have struggled to build an extraordinarily complex federal system, one that incorporates eighty-nine different units and scores of different ethnic groups, which sometimes harbor long histories of resentment against Russian imperial and Soviet legacies. This bookexamines the public debates, official documents and political deals that built Russia's federal house on very unsteady foundations, often out of the ideological, conceptual and physical rubble of the ancien régime. One of the major goals of this book is, where appropriate, to bring together the insights ofcomparative law and comparative politics in the study of the development of Russia's attempts to create - as its constitution states in the very first article - a 'Democratic, federal, rule-of-law state'
Book Synopsis Ethnicity, Federalism and Democratic Transition in Russia by :
Download or read book Ethnicity, Federalism and Democratic Transition in Russia written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Federalism and transition to democracy in Russia by : James Hughes
Download or read book Federalism and transition to democracy in Russia written by James Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russia's Turn to the East by : Helge Blakkisrud
Download or read book Russia's Turn to the East written by Helge Blakkisrud and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly – have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Following the 2014 annexation and the subsequent enactment of a sanctions regime against the country, the Kremlin has emphasized the eastern vector in its external relations. But to what extent has Russia’s 'pivot to the East' intensified or changed in nature – domestically and internationally – since the onset of the current crisis in relations with the West? Rather than taking the declared 'pivot' as a fact and exploring the consequences of it, the contributors to this volume explore whether a pivot has indeed happened or if what we see today is the continuation of longer-duration trends, concerns and ambitions.
Download or read book Without a Map written by Andrei Shleifer and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced look at Russia's attempts to build capitalism on the ruins of Soviet central planning. Recent commentators on Russia's economic reforms have almost uniformly declared them a disappointing and avoidable--failure. In this book, two American scholars take a new and more balanced look at the country's attempts to build capitalism on the ruins of Soviet central planning. They show how and why the Russian reforms achieved remarkable breakthroughs in some areas but came undone in others. Unlike Eastern European countries such as Poland or the Czech Republic, to which it is often compared, Russia is a federal, ethnically diverse, industrial giant with an economy heavily oriented toward raw materials extraction. The political obstacles it faced in designing reforms were incomparably greater. Shleifer and Treisman tell how Russia's leaders, navigating in uncharted economic terrain, managed to find a path around some of these obstacles. In successful episodes, central reformers devised a strategy to win over some key opponents, while dividing and marginalizing others. Such political tactics made possible the rapid privatization of 14,000 state enterprises in 1992-1994 and the defeat of inflation in 1995. But failure to outmaneuver the new oligarchs and regional governors after 1996 undermined reformers' attempts to collect taxes and clean up the bureaucracy that has stifled business growth.Renewing a strain of analysis that runs from Machiavelli to Hirschman, the authors reach conclusions about political strategies that have important implications for other reformers. They draw on their extensive knowledge of the country and recent experience as advisors to Russian policymakers. Written in an accessible style, the book should appeal to economists, political scientists, policymakers, businesspeople, and all those interested in Russian politics or economics.
